Shipboard Aerosol and Atmospheric Sensing System (SAASS)
Abstract
Despite marine fogs importance to naval operations, the skill of operational and global environmental models in forecasting marine,fog and its optical properties remain limited, due to our incomplete understanding of fog dynamical and physical processes over its,entire life-cycle. Improved understanding of the small-scale structure of fog, including aerosol, droplet and turbulence properties,, is necessary in order to better forecast the propagation of optical and radio-frequency electromagnetic signals critical to US Nav,y communications and operations at sea. However, though crucial to improving our understanding of these processes, observations with,in the fog layer, especially over the ocean, are particularly limited and difficult to conduct. In this project, we propose to devel,op a novel instrument package specifically designed to characterize fog processes, the Shipboard Aerosol and Atmospheric Sensing Sys,tem (SAASS), capable of high-resolution measurements of vertical fluxes of momentum, heat, and water vapor, along with near-surface,measurements of aerosol and droplet size distributions, and atmospheric boundary layer characterization through vertical sounding. T,his abstract is publicly releasable
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 05, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142212256
Entities
People
- Luc Lenain
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, San Diego